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Data Center I/O Performance Issues and Impacts

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Overview It is vital to understand the value of performance, including response time, and numbers of I/O operations for each environment and particular application. While the cost per raw TByte may seem relatively inexpensive, the cost for I/O response time performance also needs to be effectively addressed and put into the proper context as part of the data center QoS cost structure. There are many approaches to address data center I/O performance bottlenecks with most centered on adding more storage hardware to address bandwidth or throughput issues. Time sensitive applications depend on low response times as workloads increase and thus latency can not be ignored.

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Publisher	StorageIO	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center

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